Pie-carrier cabinet.



C. C. BLALOCK PIE CARRIER CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. e, 1917.

Patented Apr. 23,1918.

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PIE-CARRIER CABINET.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 6, 1917. Serial No. 200,551. 1

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that LCLOVIS CorFEY BLA- LOCK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of El Paso, in the county of El Paso and State of Texas, have invented a new and Improved Pie-Carrier Cabinet, of

which the following is a full, clear, and

exact description.

My invention relates to carrier cabinets, and more particularly is intended for embodiment in carrier cabinets for pics.

An important object of the invention isto provide a cabinet of the class referred to possessing strength with lightness and formed of elements that may be cheaply produced and assembled into cabinet form with facility and despatch.

The invention also has for an object to provide a cabinet improved with respect to accessibility, and the promotion of convenience in placing and in examining or removing the contents.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is aperspective view of a pie carrier cabinet embodying my invention, part of the sliding front helng broken away;

Fig. 2 is atransverse vertical sectionas indicated by the line 22, Fig. 1; a

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section as indicated by the line 3-3, Fig. 1; v i Fig. 4 is a fragmentary vertical section of the upper front portion of the cabinet representing a fragment of the slidable front in a raised position;

In carrying out my invention the cabinet is formed of upstanding sides 10 of wood and in practice the sides are made of a single length of board. A bottom 11 is secured to the sides, and a top 12, said top terminating short of the front edges of the sides 10 as will hereinafter appear. 0n the top 12 is a suitable handle bar 13.

The back and front of the cabinet I make n 1practice from paper board. The back 14 1s tted at its side edges in vertical grooves 15 produced in the inner faces of the sides zontal shelf grooves 19 are produced which slidably receive metal shelves 18. Each shelf 18 is formed of a single plate and at the rear edge it is formed with a right angle flange 20 which is adapted to come to a bearing against the back 14, whereby to prevent damage of the backin the repeated sliding of the shelf into position incidental to the handling of the shelves and pies. At the front edge the shelf 18 is beaded as at 21 to prevent a raw edge and to afford strength and to provide a grasping member for withdrawing the shelf. The flange 20 and bead 21 of a shelf terminate short of the side edges-0f the shelf leaving plane edge portions 22 of a single thickness throughout which are accommodated in the grooves 19. Preferably the corners of the shelf are cut off on a bevel as at 23.

. slidably received at its side edges in vertical grooves 25 formed in the inner faces of the sides 10 adjacent to the front edges thereof and forward of the front edge of the top 12. The front walls of thegrooves 25 are formed by integral beads 26 on the sides 10 and it will be observed fromFigs. 1 and 3 that the beads 26-are produced of a narrow Width so that there is a greater distance between the opposed faces thereonthan between the opposed inner surfaces'27 of the sides 10 whereby the said sides '10 present front edge surfaces 28 between the beads 26. The formation provides perfect clearance for the shelves 27 in the sliding movements of of the latter.

A finger hold 29 of known form is provided in the front 24 consisting of adepressed metallic cup having'a' front annular flange 30 and'a rear clamping ring 31, the

said car) being located adjacent to the lower edge of the front.

At the bottom and top of the cabinet 1 provide metallic straps 32, 33 extendin about the four sides. The beads 26 as wil be seen from Figs. 2 and 4 terminate shortof the top surface of the cabinet, and the vertical grooves 25 terminate at the upper ends of the beads, whereby a space 34 equaling the width of the grooves 25 and beads 26 or approximately so is produced in front of the top 12. The strap 33 extends across the front of the cabinet at the front of the space 34, said space thus being defined at the back by the front edge of the top 12 and at the front by the. strap 33. Said space 34 facilitates the entrance of the slidable front 24 since the lower edge of said front may be freely entered into the said space to strike, for example, against the upper ends of the beads 26 as indicated in Fig. 4, and then may be readily guided into the grooves 25. The resence of the strap 33 across the space 34 a so serves the purpose that when the finger is inserted in the hold 29 and the slide quickly raised, the contact of the finger with the strap 33 prevents such an undue movement belng given to the front as to entirely disengage it from the cabinet. Also, the cover may be raised to the position of Fig. 4 to afford convenient access to all the shelves including the top shelf, and retained in the raised position without necessitating its complete removal from the cabinet, the

strap 33 serving to retain the cover in position with its lower edge in'the space 3i for the convenient lowering of the cover again into the grooves 25. The holding action of the strap 32 on the cover is flexibility of the strap.

It will be observed in Fig. 3 that the grooves 15 and 25 correspond as do also the beads 15 and 26 and thereby the sides may be produced cheaply by wood-working machinery and either edge of the dressed and grooved board may be placed to the front or to the back in assembling the parts. The employment of the paper board for the back 14 and the front closure 24 also contributes to the cheapness and lightness of the struc ture.

Having thus described my invention, I

promoted by the and desire to secure by Letters walls of the vertical'grooves, the said beads terminating at their upper ends below the upper surface of the said top, the distance between the opposite beads being greater than the distance between the opposed inner surfaces of the grooved sides so that the sides present front surfaces laterally inward of the said beads through which front surfaces the shelf grooves extend, a front closure slidably fitting in the said vertical grooves, and straps extending about the cabinet at the top and bottom, the upper strap at the front, lying in a vertical plane in front of the beads above the upper ends of the beads.

2. A carrier cabinet of the class described, open at the front and having vertical grooves in the inner surfaces of the sides near the front edges and presenting integral beads formin front walls of the vertical grooves, said eads terminating at their upper ends below the upper surface of the top of the cabinet, a front slidably receivable at its side edges in the said vertical grooves, and a strap extending about the cabinet and across the upper edge of said slidable front above the upper ends of said beads.

CLOVIS COFFEY BLALOCK. 

